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By *eliciousDiva69 OP Woman
over a year ago

Schitts Creek

So I’m feeling a bit meh lately and have a few days off work, think it’s time to curl up with a good book. Hit me with your suggestions, any genre, inspire me!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jd Kirk

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

Books are so last century!

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

I'm going through a John Grisham phase at the mo, I love a courtroom drama.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stuart McBride

David J Gatward

Alex Smith

Alex Scarrow

Elly Griffiths

Peter James

Val McDermid

Robert Galbraith

Marian Keyes

Cara Hunter

Ross Greenwood

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By *un couple 2Couple
over a year ago

Tynemouth.

women on top by Nancy friday.

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By *eliciousDiva69 OP Woman
over a year ago

Schitts Creek

"Books are so last century!"

That’s ok, I’m old

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By *eliciousDiva69 OP Woman
over a year ago

Schitts Creek

"Stuart McBride

David J Gatward

Alex Smith

Alex Scarrow

Elly Griffiths

Peter James

Val McDermid

Robert Galbraith

Marian Keyes

Cara Hunter

Ross Greenwood

They’re authors FC, which book(s) would you recommend?

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By *elloWoman
over a year ago

alpha centauri

Pride and prejudice and zombies.

World War Z.

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By *oco_marsWoman
over a year ago

Stockport

Oxblood by Tom Benn! Or my favourite, the godfather by Mario Puzo

I haven't read in ages!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like Imogen Clarkes writing style/stories. Each story (or the ones I've read) start off like a normal family and then you learn about their dynamics and secrets etc. Makes my family (the one I was brought up in) not look so broken!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Stuart McBride

David J Gatward

Alex Smith

Alex Scarrow

Elly Griffiths

Peter James

Val McDermid

Robert Galbraith

Marian Keyes

Cara Hunter

Ross Greenwood

They’re authors FC, which book(s) would you recommend?"

Any of them! Start with JD Kirk A Litter of Bones then work through the series, then go into the Hoon books, you’ll be crying with laughter by the end!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Read some Cormac McCarthy if you fancy an existential crisis this week

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By *eliciousDiva69 OP Woman
over a year ago

Schitts Creek

"Read some Cormac McCarthy if you fancy an existential crisis this week"

Hmm might have to pass since I’m already feeling meh! Maybe next month though

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By *eliciousDiva69 OP Woman
over a year ago

Schitts Creek

"Stuart McBride

David J Gatward

Alex Smith

Alex Scarrow

Elly Griffiths

Peter James

Val McDermid

Robert Galbraith

Marian Keyes

Cara Hunter

Ross Greenwood

They’re authors FC, which book(s) would you recommend?

Any of them! Start with JD Kirk A Litter of Bones then work through the series, then go into the Hoon books, you’ll be crying with laughter by the end! "

Perfect, noted and on my list thanks

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By *rimson_RoseWoman
over a year ago

Tamworth

Oh god, so many. Some favourites:

CJ Sansom

Jodie Taylor

M J Arlidge

Val McDermid

Ben Aaronovitch

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By *rimson_RoseWoman
over a year ago

Tamworth

"Oh god, so many. Some favourites:

CJ Sansom

Jodie Taylor

M J Arlidge

Val McDermid

Ben Aaronovitch

And to add, literally anything by any of these. They all have series so start with the first and plough through

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

Dharma Bums Kerouac

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By *reyToTheFairiesWoman
over a year ago

Carlisle usually

Perdido Street Station by China Meiville

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By *ittlemissTinselTitsCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

Depends what you're in the mood for

Chick lit I love Jill Mansell, Louise Bagshaw( mensch) ,

Crime my favourite us Karin Slaugher, PJ Tracy

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By *herry delightWoman
over a year ago

Ilfracombe

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything by Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Faulks, CJ Sansom, or for lighter, more humorous there's Richard Osman and his Thursday Murder Club series

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By *ilsaGeorgeCouple
over a year ago

kent

If you’d like something epic, erotic, fantastical, fast-paced and easy to read, and filled with wild imagination, then try Imajica, by Clive Barker. It’s a wild ride.

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By *rimson_RoseWoman
over a year ago

Tamworth

"Anything by Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Faulks, CJ Sansom, or for lighter, more humorous there's Richard Osman and his Thursday Murder Club series"

Yes! All these!

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By *ostindreamsMan
over a year ago

London

The count of Monte Cristo. It's a huuuge book and I am 100 pages short of finishing it. Very good so far.

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By *tanley FunseekerMan
over a year ago

stanley

"So I’m feeling a bit meh lately and have a few days off work, think it’s time to curl up with a good book. Hit me with your suggestions, any genre, inspire me!

Everything by Terry Pratchett

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By *ervice2000Man
over a year ago

derby

Greenlights matthew mcconaughey

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By *tylebender03Man
over a year ago

Manchester

I’m trying to get through some Neil Gaiman books atm, I’m reading Norse mythology and have Sandman vol 1 next on the agenda

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh god, so many. Some favourites:

CJ Sansom

Jodie Taylor

M J Arlidge

Val McDermid

Ben Aaronovitch

And to add, literally anything by any of these. They all have series so start with the first and plough through

I second the Ben Aaronovitch books, especially the Rivers of London books (crime stories with a supernatural slant).

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

"Oh god, so many. Some favourites:

CJ Sansom

Jodie Taylor

M J Arlidge

Val McDermid

Ben Aaronovitch

And to add, literally anything by any of these. They all have series so start with the first and plough through

I second the Ben Aaronovitch books, especially the Rivers of London books (crime stories with a supernatural slant)."

If you like crime with a supernatural slant, have you tried John Connolly's Charlie Parker series? I love them so much!

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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago

Derry

"women on top by Nancy friday."

Hell yes and read My Secret Garden as well.

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By *lexm87Man
over a year ago

Various

The Iliad

Lanark

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

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By *xonman53Man
over a year ago

Thame

"So I’m feeling a bit meh lately and have a few days off work, think it’s time to curl up with a good book. Hit me with your suggestions, any genre, inspire me!

On Basilisk Station

By David Weber (military SF)

The start of the Honorverse...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fiction:

Open water

Cal

Exciting times

Small worlds

Diary of a young girl/ Anne Frank

Poor

Heartburn

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fiction:

Open water

Cal

Exciting times

Small worlds

Diary of a young girl/ Anne Frank

Poor

Heartburn

Unsurprisingly nearly all the non fiction I read is about racism so pretty heavy.

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By *eliciousDiva69 OP Woman
over a year ago

Schitts Creek

"I’m trying to get through some Neil Gaiman books atm, I’m reading Norse mythology and have Sandman vol 1 next on the agenda"

Ngl that sounds a little heavy for a few days off work

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

John Sanford the prey novels

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

If you want cheering up,any of the Discworld set Terry Pratchett books.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you want cheering up,any of the Discworld set Terry Pratchett books."

Totally agree! Pratchett is so funny. I love the discworld series

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

"If you want cheering up,any of the Discworld set Terry Pratchett books.

Totally agree! Pratchett is so funny. I love the discworld series"

Brilliant stuff.Greatly missed.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

I'm currently re-reading my way through all Iain Banks's writings.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"The Iliad

Lanark

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Lanark by Alasdair Gray? Brilliant.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

City of Bohane by Kevin Barry

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

A lesbians guide to women, absolute hilarious and a little spicy too.

Mrs

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Confessions of a forty-something f#ck up by Alexandra Potter

I really enjoyed it. It's so funny and totally relatable. Definitely worth a read.

Ruby

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
over a year ago

Manchester(ish).

The Zodiac Academy series by Caroline Peckham. First ones called The Awakening

Its like an adult Harry Potter. Get past the first book and they improve a lot. I'm 6 books in and loving it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

War and Peace.. Tolstoy

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By *orthampton jamesMan
over a year ago

Northampton

My escapes are Jack Reacher, macho bullshit but it works for me

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By *akedMMan
over a year ago

Witney

Wilbur smith

At the moment reading Target and Destroy by Tom Marcus

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By *tanley FunseekerMan
over a year ago

stanley

"I’m trying to get through some Neil Gaiman books atm, I’m reading Norse mythology and have Sandman vol 1 next on the agenda

Ngl that sounds a little heavy for a few days off work

Try good omens that he co wrote with Terry Pratchett, not heavy just funny

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

"My escapes are Jack Reacher, macho bullshit but it works for me "

Are they the books that had the tag line on the cover 'men want to be him, women want to be with him'? I saw that on a cover of a book once it really made me laugh, think it was a Jack Reacher

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By *orthampton jamesMan
over a year ago

Northampton

"My escapes are Jack Reacher, macho bullshit but it works for me

Are they the books that had the tag line on the cover 'men want to be him, women want to be with him'? I saw that on a cover of a book once it really made me laugh, think it was a Jack Reacher

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it is, but who cares, it's all a bit of fun

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

"My escapes are Jack Reacher, macho bullshit but it works for me

Are they the books that had the tag line on the cover 'men want to be him, women want to be with him'? I saw that on a cover of a book once it really made me laugh, think it was a Jack Reacher

it is, but who cares, it's all a bit of fun "

I don't care I just thought it was funny in a good way, it amused me!

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By *orthampton jamesMan
over a year ago

Northampton

Have you seen the new series on prime?

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

"Have you seen the new series on prime?"

I haven't I don't have Prime, but I've seen the ads for it and it looks better than the films, Tom Cruise never seemed right to play Jack Reacher.

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By *BootyfulDayWoman
over a year ago

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Oooo thanks for this thread OP! I need to get back into reading so this is great inspiration!

I think the last books I have ready have been non fiction, can’t remember the last fiction book I read sorry!

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By *orthampton jamesMan
over a year ago

Northampton

"Have you seen the new series on prime?

I haven't I don't have Prime, but I've seen the ads for it and it looks better than the films, Tom Cruise never seemed right to play Jack Reacher."
Tom Cruise could never be Reacher, he's only half the size of the book character

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you want some fantasy escapism, can't recommend the First Law books by Joe Abercrombie highly enough, do yourself a favour and listen to them on audio though, they're narrated by Steven Pacey who really makes the characters come alive.

It's not for kids though.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Terry Pratchett - Discworld series.

Spike Milligan - War stories.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I read it a long time ago, but JoJo Moyes Sheltering Rain was a hug in a book

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Pets with tourettes.

The mr

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By *rimson_RoseWoman
over a year ago

Tamworth

OP what did you go for in the end?

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By *cnugatugMan
over a year ago

Chatham

The devine comedies

(Dante's infern)

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By *pen2UMan
over a year ago

Telford

I mean if you're into the gaming scene then Awaken Online - Travis Bagwell is an incredible LitRPG series! Check it out and see what you think!

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By *tanley FunseekerMan
over a year ago

stanley

"So I’m feeling a bit meh lately and have a few days off work, think it’s time to curl up with a good book. Hit me with your suggestions, any genre, inspire me!

Positive psychology in a nutshell, the science of happiness by Ilona Boniwell

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